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Past Season’s Programs
2011-12 Season
June 1-2, 2012
DiMenna Center for Classical Music, NYC
Underwood New Music Readings
Six composers will join the ACO at the DiMenna Center for Music in what has become a rite of passage for aspiring orchestral composers. All will receive readings of the works listed below, and one of them will be selected to receive a $15,000 commission for a work to be performed by ACO during an upcoming season.
George Manahan, Music Director & Conductor
RYAN CHASE: The Light Fantastic
PETER FAHEY: Impressions
MICHAEL-THOMAS FOUMAI: Concerto for Orchestra
PAUL KEREKES: Timber
PIN HSIN LIN: Symphony no. 3
BENJAMIN TAYLOR: Leaving White
Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 7:30
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Orchestra Underground:
American Accounts
Musical narratives connecting our past, present and future.
George Manahan, Music Director
& Conductor
Derek Bermel, clarinet
Gabriel Kahane, piano, guitars & vocals
Amy Porter, flute
Ian Williams, electronics
MILTON BABBITT: From the Psalter
(ACO commission)
AARON COPLAND: Clarinet Concerto
MICHAEL DAUGHERTY: Trail of Tears
(NYC Premiere, ACO co-commission)
GABRIEL KAHANE: Crane Palimpsest
(World Premiere, ACO/Jerome/NYSCA commission)
February 25, 2012 at 8:00
Speyer Hall
University Settlement
184 Eldridge Street, NYC
Composers Out Front:
Jessie Montgomery
The latest works by Jessie
Montgomery performed by PUBLIQuartet (string quartet), and members from the
Catalyst String Quartet, ICE, and Threeds in performances of original live music
to film and a world premiere of Scherzo for Winds. Jessie Montgomery is ACO’s Van Lier Emerging
Composer Fellow which is made possible by the Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund and
Musical Arts Fund of the New York Community Trust.
Tuesday, January, 31, 2012 at 8:00
Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium
Philip Glass at 75
Celebrating the composer’s milestone birthday with the premiere of his landmark new symphony.
Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
Maki Namekawa,
piano
Arvo Pärt: Lamentate (NYC Premiere)
Philip Glass: Symphony No. 9 (U.S. Premiere, Carnegie
Hall commission)
October 14-22, 2011
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2010-11 Season
Friday, July 23, 2010 at 8pm
Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 8pm
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
Jazz Meets Orchestra
John Zorn, Roscoe Mitchell, Leroy Jenkins and Earle Brown are featured composers as ACO & the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia Univ. kick-off the new Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute at Miller Theatre.
More info…
Friday, Oct. 15, 2010 at 7:30pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Orchestra Underground: Mystics & Magic
George Manahan, conductor
Susan Narucki, soprano
Ursula Oppens, pianist
CLAUDE VIVIER: Lonely Child
(NYC Premiere)
ALVIN SINGLETON: BluesKonzert
(NYC Premiere)
JACOB DRUCKMAN: Nor Spell Nor Charm
JOHN LUTHER ADAMS: The Light Within
(World Premiere, ACO Commission, version for orchestra)
WANG JIE: From the Other Sky
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
Friday, December 3, 2010 at 7:30pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Orchestra Underground: A Time & Place
George Manahan, conductor
Maya Beiser, cello
Christopher Trapani, hexaphonic guitar
CHARLES IVES: Central Park In The Dark
DOUGLAS J. CUOMO: Black Diamond Express Train to Hell
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI: Westering
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
JEROME KITZKE: The Fire at 4 a.m.
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
RYAN FRANCIS: Highline
(World Premiere, ACO/LVMH Commission)
March 17, 2011. FREE ADMISSION.
Dweck Center at Brooklyn Public Library
Composers OutFront!
Doug Cuomo
ACO continues its series presenting composer-performers in intimate settings around the city, with a performance by Douglas J. Cuomo at the Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture at the Brooklyn Public Library, Thurs., March 17 at 7pm. Cuomo is best known for his score to the hit television series Sex and the City. In this setting Cuomo headlines an all-star quintet. AllMusic.com has praised Cuomo for his music which is,“…full of astonishing turns and is never predictable.”
Orchestra Underground: Playing it UNsafe
Lab Workshops
Monday, Oct. 18, 2010 at 2 pm
Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010 at 2pm
JCC, 334 Amsterdam Ave at 76th St., NYC
Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011 at 2pm
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 2pm
Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 2pm
Aaron Davis Hall, Theater B
ACO’s next musical laboratory. Composers pursuing no-holds-barred explorations that challenge their creative capacities and
stretch the limits of what is possible with an orchestra. This open rehearsal offers the second in a series of glimpses of the works-in-progress. Music by Henry Threadgill, Sean Friar, Joan La Barbara, David Heuser, and Laura Schwendinger. Admission is free with reservation.
Orchestra Underground: Playing it UNsafe
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Fri., March 4, 2011 at 7:30pm
George Manahan, Music Director & Conductor
Joan La Barbara, voice
Line C3 Percussion
Sean Friar: Clunker Concerto
(World Premiere)
Joan La Barbara: In solitude this fear is lived
(World Premiere)
Laura Schwendinger:Shadings
(World Premiere)
Henry Threadgill: No Gates, No White Trenches, Butterfly Effect
(World Premiere)
Playing It UNsafe is the first and only professional research and development lab to support the creation of cutting-edge new American orchestral music through no-holds-barred experimentation, encouraging composers to do anything but “play it safe.”Selected from a national search for their willingness to experiment and stretch their own musical sensibilities, these composers test the limits of the orchestra. Playing It UNsafe grew out of ACO’s ongoing mission to commission and perform new music that expands the range of possibilities for – and challenges convention notions about – orchestral music.
The culminating performance of ACO’s season-long collaborative musical laboratory. Composers pursuing no-holds-barred explorations that challenge their creative capacities and stretch the limits of what is possible with an orchestra. New pieces selected through a nationwide search and born from a unique incubation process of workshops, public readings, and collaborative feedback.
June 3-4, 2011
Miller Theater
at Columbia University
Underwood New Music Readings
In what has become a rite of passage for aspiring orchestral composers, up to eight composers from throughout the United States will be selected to receive a reading of a new work, and one composer will be selected to receive a $15,000 commission for a work to be performed by ACO during an upcoming season.
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 7:30 pm
George Manahan, Conductor
JORDAN KUSPA: Iterations
KATE SOPER: Entre les Calanques
MICHAEL DJUPSTROM: Scène et Pas de deux
MUKAI KÔHEI: Mugen
JANET JIERU CHEN: Beyond Distance
NARONG PRANGCHAROEN: Pubbanimitta for Orchestra
June 5-6, 2011
Miller Theater at Columbia University
Jazz Composers Readings
The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University and ACO will present the first-ever Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Readings, the culmination of a process that begins with a week-long Intensive held on the Columbia University campus in July 2010 and led by Center for Jazz Studies director George Lewis. Several JCOI Intensive participants will submit applications to participate in the JCOI Readings on June 5 and 6, 2011. Four to six promising composers will be selected to create new works for orchestra and to work further with mentor composers and conductors in developing these works.
JCOI Readings
MIller Theatre at Columbia University
Monday, June 6th
7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Erica Lindsay: Inner Dialogue
Mark HELIAS:Stochasm
Harris EISENSTADT: Palimpsest
Marianne TRUDEL: La Promesse
Jacob SACKS: jqxz
Nicole MITCHELL: Stealing Freedom in Broad Daylight
Adam JENKINS: The Floating Bridge of Dreams
Rufus REID: Mass Transit: III – Metropolis
2009-10 Season
Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 at 7:00pm
Whitney Museum of American Art
Composers OutFront!:
Erin Gee & Colin Gee
COLIN GEE, actor/director
ERIN GEE, vocalist
Join composer/vocalist Erin Gee and her brother Colin Gee,
actor/filmmaker, at the Whitney Museum for a special presentation of their work for voice, film, and actor. The evening begins with a performance by Ms. Gee of several of her works for solo voice, which employ unusual techniques using two microphones and live computer processing. Colin Gee, former actor with Cirque du Soleil and currently the Whitney Live Artist-in-Residence, will show an excerpt from his film Dakota. The event will also include a preview of the siblings’ work in progress – Mouthpiece XIII: Mathilde of Loci, Part 1 – which premieres with ACO’s Orchestra Underground on November 30.
Monday, Nov. 30, 2009 at 7:30pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Orchestra Underground: Traditions & Transmigrations
Stefan Lano, conductor
Donal Fox, piano
Colin Gee, actor/director
Erin Gee, vocalist
Huang Ruo, vocalist
ERIN GEE: Mouthpiece XIII: Mathilde of Loci, Part 1 for Electronically Processed Voice, Actor, Film & Orchestra
(World Premiere, ACO/LVMH Commission)
CURT CACIOPPO: When the Orchard Dances Ceased
(World Premiere, ACOCommission)
CHARLES IVES: Tone Roads Nos. 1 and 3
HUANG RUO: Leaving Sao for Chinese folk voice and orchestra
(NYC Premiere)
DONAL FOX: Peace Out for Improvising Pianist & Orchestra
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 7:30pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 7:30pm
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Orchestra Underground: Conversations
Anne Manson, conductor
Paquito D’Rivera, clarinet & saxophone
Robert Black, double bass
Pawel Wojtasik, video
ROGER ZARE: Time-lapse
(World Premiere, ACO/Underwood Commission)
SEBASTIAN CURRIER: Next Atlantis for orchestra, electronics, and video
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
PAQUITO D’RIVERA: Conversations with Cachao
(NYC Premiere)
Monday, February 22, 2010 at 6:00pm
Queens Library at Flushing
41-17 Main
Street, Flushing, NY
FREE Admission
Donal Fox: Composers OutFront!
DONAL FOX, composer/pianist
in a solo evening of “Transformations, Variations, Improvisations” on music by Chopin, Ellington, Bach, Gershwin, Monk, Schumann, Scarlatti, and Fox.
Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 4:00pm
Brooklyn Public Library’s Dweck Center
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 7:30pm
Le Poisson Rouge
Composers OutFront!: Missy Mazzoli & Victoire
MISSY MAZZOLI, composer/performer
Victoire, ensemble
Two chances to see Missy Mazzoli & her chamber-rock group
Victoire playing their signature blend of winds, strings, keys,
and lo-fi electronics.
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 7:30pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Orchestra Underground: Louis & the Young Americans
Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor
LOUIS ANDRIESSEN: Symphony for Open Strings
(NYC Premiere)
MISSY MAZZOLI: These Worlds in Us
(World Premiere, new orchestration)
MICHAEL FIDAY: HST: In memoriam Hunter S. Thompson
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
JOHN KORSRUD: New Work
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
Friday, May 21, 2010 at 10am
Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 8pm
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
Underwood New Music Readings
ACO’s annual roundup of the country’s brightest young and emerging composers.
George Manahan & José Serebrier, conductors
Robert Beaser, Derek Bermel, George Tsontakis, mentor composers
TAMAR MUSKAL: Water Colors
George Manahan, conductor
HANNAH LASH: Furthermore
George Manahan, conductor
XI WANG: Symphony No. 1
José Serebrier, conductor
RICARDO ROMANEIRO: Sombras
José Serebrier, conductor
CHRISTOPHER STARK: Ignatian Exercises
José Serebrier, conductor
ERIC LINDSAY: Samba Koocho Hairy Boocho
George Manahan, conductor
MATTI KOVLER: Unsung Serenade
George Manahan, conductor
Coming to America
Celebrating NYC’s Immigrant Heritage week with music by young immigrant American composers: Feng Chern Hwei (Malaysia), Rubin Khodeli (Albania), Raimundo Penaforte (Brazil), and Gity Razaz (Iran).
Admission is FREE.
Sunday, April 18, 4:00 PM
St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Parkchester
Monday, April 19, 6:30 PM
Langston Hughes Branch, Queens Public Library
Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 11:30 AM
Ft. Hamilton High School
Wednesday, April 21, 2010,
5:00 PM
2008-2009 Season
Friday, Oct. 10, 2008 at 9pm
BAMcafe, Brooklyn
Free admission!
Composers OutFront!
Fred Ho & The Afro Asian Music Ensemble
Bobby Zankel, alto sax
Salim Washington, tenor sax
Art Hirahara, piano
Wes Brown, bass
Royal Hartigan, drums.
Baritone saxophone provocateur & composer Fred Ho performs with his signature ensemble, previewing the premiere of his When the Real Dragons Fly!, premiering in November 2008 at Zankel Hall.
Friday, November 14, 2008 at 7:30pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC
Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008 at 7:30pm
International House at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia [pre-concert talk at 7pm]
Orchestra Underground: Season Opener
Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor
Fred Ho, baritone saxophone
Seth Josel, electric guitar
CLINT NEEDHAM: Chamber Symphony
(World Premiere, ACO/Underwood/Jerome Commission)
KEERIL MAKAN: Dream Lightly for Electric Guitar & Orchestra
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
GREGORY SPEARS: Finishing
(New York Premiere)
KAMRAN INCE: Domes
(New York & Philadelphia Premieres)
FRED HO: When the Real Dragons Fly! for saxophone & orchestra (World Premiere, ACO/Goelet Commission)
Friday, Feb. 20, 2009, at 7:30pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC
Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009 at 7:30pm
Penn Presents,The Ibrahim Theater at the International House, Philadelphia [pre-concert talk at 7pm]
Orchestra Underground: Collaborations, New & Green
George Manahan, Conductor
Derek Bermel, clarinet
Kasumi, video/sound-art
Alexis Baskind, Miller Puckette
& Rand Steiger, electronics
DAVID SCHIFF: Stomp
FANG MAN: Resurrection
(World Premiere, ACO/Underwood/Jerome Commission)
MARGARET BROUWER & KASUMI: BREAKDOWN: A sample-based hybrid opera in one act
(World Premiere, ACO/Goelet Commission)
KATI AGÓCS: Pearls
(World Premiere, ACO/Goelet Commission)
RAND STEIGER: Cryosphere
for Live Electronics & Orchestra (World
Premiere, ACO/Fromm/Goelet Commission)
Thursday, Apr. 16, 2009 at 1:30pm
Friday, Apr. 17, 2009 at 7:30pm
Annenberg Center for the Arts, Philadelphia
ACO/Penn Presents New Music Readings & Lab
A glimpse at new collaborations and new music selected from the Pennsylvania region’s most promising young composers.
Guidelines and submission info…
Friday, May 1, 2009 at 7:30pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC
Orchestra Underground: Davies Returns
Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor
Eliot Fisk, guitar
Thomas Larcher, piano
Lukas Ligeti, Marimba Lumina
ROBERT BEASER: Guitar Concerto
(NYC Premiere, ACO/Goelet/Bruckner Orchester Linz/Albany Symphony Orchestra Commission)
LUKAS LIGETI: Labyrinth of Clouds for Electronic Mallet & Orchestra
(World Premiere, ACO/Goelet/Greenwall Commission)
DEREK BERMEL: A Shout, A Whisper, A Trace
(World Premiere, ACO/ProMusica Chamber Orchestra/Koussevitsky
Foundation Commission)
THOMAS LARCHER: Böse
Zellen (Malignant Cells) for piano & orchestra
(U.S. Premiere)
Thursday, May 7 & Friday, May 8, 2009.
Miller Theater at Columbia Univ.
Underwood New Music Readings
ACO’s annual roundup of the country’s brightest young and emerging composers.
2007-2008 Season
Sunday, October 7, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Brecht Forum
Steve Coleman & Aulos
Extending its reach beyond its Carnegie Hall home base, ACO’s season-long focus on composer-performers kicks off with a Composers OutFront! performance by composer-saxophonist Steve Coleman and the Aulos Trio, with Jonathan Finlayson, trumpet and Tim Albright, trombone. Admission is free.
Friday, October 19, 2007 at 7:30 pm.
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Sunday, October 21, 2007 at 7:30 pm.
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia
Orchestra Underground: Hybridity
ACO challenges convention with four category-crossing world premieres, a multimedia collaboration, and a focus on the composer-performer.
Steven Sloane, Principal Guest Conductor
Steve Coleman, saxophone
Susie Ibarra, percussion
Scott Johnson, electric guitar
Special Guest Ensemble: gutbucket
Makoto Fujimura, projections
SUSIE IBARRA: Pintados Dream (The Painted’s Dream)
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
CHARLES MINGUS: Revelations
STEVE COLEMAN: The Illusion of Body for saxophone and orchestra
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
KEN THOMSON: Wait Your Turn
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
SCOTT JOHNSON: Stalking Horse for electric guitar and orchestra
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
ANNA CLYNE: Spotlight Performance by Anna Clyne, amplified cello and tape; Joshue Ott, live visuals
Monday, January 28, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater
ACO presents Composers OutFront!
Uri Caine & the Uri Caine Ensemble
Known for his improvisational jazz-inflected permutations on music by composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, and Bach. This performance previews Caine’s Double Trouble, a concerto for piano and orchestra that Caine premieres with ACO Feb. 8.
with Ralph Alessi, trumpet
Joyce Hammann, violin
Moran Katz, clarinet
Jim Black, drums
Uri Caine, piano
Drew Gress, bass
Friday, February 8, 2008 at 7:30 pm.
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 7:30 pm.
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia
Orchestra Underground: Culture Shock
Cultures elide in new works by composer-performers that span stylistic
boundaries and diverse world music inspirations.
David Alan Miller, Conductor
Uri Caine, piano
Evan Chambers, Irish fiddle
Eva Gruesser, violin
Terry Riley, voice and synthesizer
I Wayan Sudirana, Balinese percussion
Michael Tenzer, Balinese percussion
TERRY RILEY: Remember This O Mind
(New York and Philadelphia Premieres)
MICHAEL TENZER: Resolution/Tabuh Gari for Balinese percussion & orchestra
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
URI CAINE: Double Trouble for piano and orchestra
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
EVAN CHAMBERS: Concerto for Fiddle and Violin
Wednesday & Thursday, April 23 & 24, 2008
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU
Friday, April 25, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 7:30 pm.
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia
Orchestra Underground: Playing It UNsafe
What happens when today’s most innovative musical thinkers pour their creative energies into no-holds-barred experiments designed to stretch the limits of what’s possible with an orchestra? The results of this nationwide search are brought together in an “on-the-edge” display of uncharted musical territory.
Jeffrey Milarsky, Conductor
Jeremy Flower, laptop
Ned McGowan, contrabass flute
Joshue Ott, superDraw
Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk)
ANNA CLYNE: TENDER HOOKS
a multimedia concerto for theremin, laptop & orchestra
JONATHAN DAWE: Overture & Ballet Music from Armide
fractal geometry & hip-hop meet in postwar Iraq
CHARLES MASON: Additions
time and place redefined in music for “porous” architecture
NED McGOWAN: Bantammer Swing
sonic extremes for amplified contrabass flute & orchestra
DAN TRUEMAN: Silicon/Carbon: an anti-Concerto-Grosso
for a hybrid laptop-acoustic orchestra
Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 10 pm
Free at BAM Cafe
ACO presents Composers OutFront!
Ned McGowan
The composer & contrabass flutist appears with:
Susanna Borsch, recorder
Derek Bermel, clarinet
Stephen Gosling, piano
Tuesday, May 6 & Wednesday, May 7, 2008.
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU
Underwood New Music Readings
ACO’s annual roundup of the country’s brightest young and emerging composers.
Friday, June 20, 2008 at 7:30pm
Gallerie Icosahedron
Anna Clyne: Up-Front, Re-Mixed & Re-Moved
Anna Clyne will be the featured Composers OutFront! artist on June 20 at 7:30pm at Gallerie Icosahedron in Tribeca. Featuring new and recent music by Anna with live remixes by 2s & 4s (Matt Parker, Julio Monterrey), 3D visuals by Joshue Ott/superDraw, and choreography by Flexicurve (Pascal Rekoert, Stephanie Tack), and more.
Saturday, June 21 at 1pm. FREE!
Lincoln Square Block Party
W. 64th St and Central Park West
Make Music New York Features Derek Bermel
ACO presents its Music Alive composer-in-residence, Derek Bermel, with his band Peace by Piece as part of this exciting city-wide, free music fest. At 1pm, at the West Side YMCA’s day-long block party.
2006-2007: 30th Anniversary Season
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 9:30 pm
Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater
ACO presents Composers OutFront!
Susie Ibarra: BarangayRhythms
Weaving a fascinating mix of Filipino, Spanish, Chinese and Thai rhythms and cultures with contemporary composition and improvisation. Featuring Electric Kulintang with music from their new recording to be released this fall.
Susie Ibarra, acoustic & electric kulintang, drum set, vocals & keyboard;
plus Electric Kulintang with Roberto Rodriguez, electronics, cajon & percussion;
Gilad Harel, clarinets
Mari Kimura, violin & electronics
Jade Simmons, piano
Joseph Trent, flutes
Tomas Ulrich, cello
Friday, October 13, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Sunday, October 15, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia
Orchestra Underground: Composers OutFront
ACO’s groundbreaking series reinvents the orchestra with four world premieres, a multi-media collaboration, and a new focus on composer-performers.
Brad Lubman, guest conductor
Evan Ziporyn, bass clarinet
Lauren Radnofsky, amplified cello
Susie Ibarra, percussion
Corey Dargel, vocalist
Jim Altieri, violin
CHARLES IVES: Ragtime Dances
EVAN ZIPORYN: Big Grenadilla
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
MICHAEL GATONSKA: After the Wings of Migratory Birds
(World Premiere, ACO/Underwood Commission)
MICHAEL GANDOLFI: As Above (with video by Ean White)
(NY and Philadelphia Premieres)
BRAD LUBMAN:
Fuzzy Logic (with visual installation by Boom Design Group)
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
SUSIE IBARRA: Optical Illusion – Meditation in White Light
(NY Premiere)
COREY DARGEL All the Notes & Rhythms I’ve Ever Loved
(World Premiere)
Friday, October 20, 2006 at 7:00 pm
Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater
ACO presents Composers OutFront!
Brad Lubman’s Electric Fuzz (NYC Debut)
The versatile conductor-composer-instrumentalist Brad Lubman’s latest project creates new artistic synergies, juxtaposing acoustic music with electronics, pop-art and the avant-garde.
Brad Lubman, keyboards, synth, & percussion
Will Chapin, electric guitar
Paul Coleman, electronics
Olivia DePrato, violin;
Charlie Dye, percussion
Juliet Grabowski, clarinets & koto
Oliver Hagen, keyboards
Lauren Radnofsky, cello & electronics
Todd Reynolds, violin
Thurs., Fri. & Saturday, November 16, 17 & 18, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center
ACO & Jazz at Lincoln Center
Steven Sloane, conductor
Marcus Roberts, piano
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
GEORGE GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue
DEREK BERMEL:The Migration Series
(World Premiere, ACO/Music Alive Commission)
plus great American song orchestrations by NELSON RIDDLE
Friday, March 2, 2007 at 9:30 pm
BAMCafé. Admission is Free.
ACO presents Composers OutFront!
Andrew McKenna Lee: From the Raunchy to the Refined
Andrew McKenna Lee pushes the envelope with his original compositions for electric and acoustic guitar – solo and with allied musical mavericks Janus and NOW Ensemble.
Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia
Monday, March 26, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Orchestra Underground: Composers OutFront!
ACO challenges conventional notions about orchestra music with category-breaking premieres that continue a focus on composer as performer.
Dennis Russell Davies, conductor laureate
Vijay Iyer, piano
Steven Mackey, electric guitar
Kurt Rohde, viola
Harold Meltzer, harpsichord
Jason Treuting, percussion
Andrew McKenna Lee, guitar
Min Xiao-Fen, pipa
STEVEN MACKEY: Deal for Electric Guitar & Chamber Orchestra
(Philadelphia and New
York Premieres)
KURT ROHDE: White Boy/Man Invisible
(NY Premiere, ACO Commission)
VIJAY IYER: Interventions
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
HAROLD MELTZER: Virginal
TANIA LEÓN: Indigena
plus music by ANDREW McKENNA LEE & MIN XIAO-FEN
Friday, March 30, 2007 at 9:30 pm
BAMCafé. Admission is Free.
ACO presents Composers OutFront!
Min Xiao-Fen: Blue Pipa Trio
Pipa virtuoso Min Xiao-Fen’s Blue Pipa Trio integrates and improvises on the best of Chinese folk music, Jazz standards and even Bluegrass. With Bill McCrossen, bass & Steve Salerno, guitar.
Friday & Saturday, April 13, 1:30 – 4:30pm. Free.
Saturday, April 14, 7:30pm.
Harold Prince Theater
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia
ACO/Penn New Music Readings & Lab
Featuring brand new music by five emerging composers from the Philadelphia-area.
Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor
Robert Beaser, artistic director
Derek Bermel, Music Alive composer-in-residence
Jennifer Higdon, mentor composer
Gerald Levinson, mentor composer
Jay Reise, mentor composer
MICHAEL DJUPSTROM: Gaeng
JOHN B. HEDGES: Scirocco Dances
DAVID LAGANELLA: Under Ethereal
GREGORY SPEARS: Finishing
ALAN TORMEY: Cleveland is a State of Mind
Friday, April 27, 2007 at 8:00 pm
Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall
An Adams Apple: John Adams at 60
John Adams, conductor
Leila Josefowicz, violin
Eric Owens, bass-baritone
JOHN ADAMS: My Father Knew Charles Ives
The Wound Dresser
Violin Concerto
Tuesday & Wednesday, May 8 & 9, 2007
10:00 am – 1:00 pm. Admission is Free.
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
ACO’s annual roundup of the country’s brightest young and emerging composers selected from a national search.
Paul Lustig Dunkel & David Alan Miller, conductors
Robert Beaser, artistic director
Derek Bermel, Tania León, Christopher Theofanides & Yehudi Wyner, mentor composers
ROSHANNE ETEZADY: Cereus
HSU CHIA-YU: Fantasy on Wang Bao Chuan
XINYAN LI: Mountain Sacrifice No. 2
NORBERT PALEJ: Movimento Sinfonico
AMY KIRSTEN: Strange Angel
PHILIPPE BODIN: Fling
JOSEPH PEREIRA: Mask
RYAN STREBER: Arcuare
CLINT NEEDHAM: Earth and Green
2005-2006 Season
Friday, November 11, 2005 7:30 pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Orchestra Underground
“Music in Motion”
Steven Sloane, conductor
Pilobolus Dance Theatre
Alison Chase, choreography
Mirra Bank, film
Carole Farley, soprano
Margaret Lloyd, soprano
CONLON NANCARROW: Study No. 7 (Orchestrated by Yvar Mikhashoff)
JOSÉ SEREBRIER: Symphony No. 3, Symphonie Mystique
(World Premiere)
MICHAEL TORKE: Four Proverbs
(World Premiere, Chamber Orchestra Version)
EDWARD BILOUS: Lucid Dreams
(World Premiere)
Orchestra Underground is presented with the generous support of The Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund.
Sunday, November 13, 2005 7:30 PM
Zellerbach Theater, Annenberg Center for the Arts
Philadelphia, PA
OrchestraUnderground “Music in Motion”
repeat of November 11 program
Saturday, February 4, 2006 7:30 PM
Harold Prince Theater, Annenberg Center for the Arts
Philadelphia, PA
Underground Mix
Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor
Lauren Flanigan, soprano
Daniel Druckman, percussion
Randall Woolf: BYOD
(Philadelphia Premiere)
Steven Mackey: Micro-Concerto
(Philadelphia Premiere)
Hiroya Miura: Wind Coils
(World Premiere)
Robert Beaser: Songs from “The Occasions”
Friday, March 17, 2006 7:30 pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Orchestra Underground “Tech & Techno”
Steven Sloane,conductor
Todd Reynolds, electric violin
DJ Scientific, laptop
Bill T. Jones, narrator
JUSTIN MESSINA: Abandon
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
EDMUND CAMPION: Practice
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
NEIL ROLNICK: iFiddle Concerto
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
MASON BATES: Omnivorous Furniture
(New York Premiere)
DANIEL BERNARD ROUMAIN: Call Them All: Fantasy Projections for Film Laptop and Orchestra
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
Orchestra Underground is presented with the generous support of The Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund.
Saturday, March 18, 2006 7:30 PM
Zellerbach Theater, Annenberg Center for the Arts
Philadelphia, PA
Orchestra Underground “Tech & Techno”
Repeat of March 17 program
Sunday, April 30, 2006 at 2:00 PM
Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall.
Family Concert: Let’s Go to the Movies
featuring some of Hollywood’s favorite kid-friendly film music, including music from Harry Potter, Star Wars, and The Lion King. Pre-concert educational activities for kids start at 12:30 PM. Tickets only $8.
Wednesday, May 3, 2006 8:00 PM
Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall
Steven Sloane, conductor
Deborah Voigt, Soprano
ACO Singers, Judith Clurman, director
KRISTIN KUSTER: Myrrha
(World Premiere, ACO/The Helen F. Whitaker Fund Commission)
DEREK BERMEL: Elixir
(World Premiere, ACO/Betty Freeman/Westchester Philharmonic Commission)
BRIAN CURRENT: Symphonies in Slanted Time
(New York Premiere, Barlow Endowment Commission)
STEPHEN PAULUS: Erotic Spirits
(New York Premiere)
Thursday, May 18, 2006 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Friday May 19, 2006 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
15th Annual Underwood New Music Readings
ACO’s annual roundup of the country’s brightest young and emerging composers.
May 18
ROBERT GATES: Aerials
ANDREA REINKEMEYER: Lured by the Horizon
FANG MAN: Black and White
ANNA CLYNE: rewind
May 19
PAUL RICHARDS: Music for Midsummer
JEFF MYERS: Metamorphosis III
MATTHEW TOMMASINI: Songs Lost and Forgotten
Lead support for the Underwood New Music Readings comes from Mr. Paul Underwood, The Fromm Music Foundation and The Helen F. Whitaker Fund. ACO’s emerging composers programs are made possible with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and with the support of Jerome Foundation and the Eleanor Naylor Dana Charitable Trust.
2004-2005 Season
Wednesday, November 17, 2004 at 7:30 pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
ACO kicks-off its second season “underground” with provocative music that explores the relationship between music and the visual arts.
Steven Sloane, conductor
Ida Kavafian, violin
Alice Ripley, soprano
Matt Bogart, tenor
STEPHEN SONDHEIM: Sunday in the Park with George (selections)
MORTON FELDMAN: De Kooning
RANDALL WOOLF: Women at an Exhibition for chamber orchestra, electronics, and video (by Mary Harron and John C. Walsh)
(World Premiere)
MICHAEL DAUGHERTY: Fire and Blood
(New York Premiere)
Orchestra Underground is presented with the generous support of The Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund.
Recommended Reading:
Sondheim in Two Contexts
by Gerald Moshell
Looking at Women
by Mic Holwin
Music & Art Beneath the Surface
by Frank J. Oteri
Friday, January 21, 2005. 7:30 pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
ACO’s groundbreaking series continues with a high-tech, high-energy program of all world premieres with percussive, improvisational & spatial explorations.
Steven Sloane, conductor
So Percussion
Dan Trueman, violin & electronics
CARLOS CARRILLO:Algunas metáforas que aluden al tormento, a la angustia y a la guerra
(World Premiere, BMI/Carlos Surinach Fund Commission)
DAN TRUEMAN: Traps Relaxed
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
JASON FREEMAN: Glimmer
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
EVE BEGLARIAN: Flaming0
(World Premiere, revised version)
Orchestra Underground is presented with the generous support of The Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund.Also funded in part through Meet the Composer’s Creative Connections Program with the support of ASCAP Foundation, Copland Fund, Ford Foundation, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Jerome Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, Virgil Thomson Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Recommended Reading:
Discovering an Electric Violin
by Dan Trueman
Swooping the Orchestra with “Glimmer”
by Jason Freeman
Wednesday, February 23, 2005. 8:00 pm
Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium
An all premiere program featuring a major new work by Hollywood outsider composer Danny Elfman, and new music for Andy Summers, the lead guitarist of the legendary band the Police.
Steven Sloane, conductor
Andy Summers, electric guitar
Benjamin Verdery, classical guitar
ACO Singers, Judith Clurman, director
MANLY ROMERO: Blanco, Azul, Rojo
(World Premiere, Commissioned by The Helen F. Whitaker Fund)
INGRAM MARSHALL: Dark Florescence – Variations for Two Guitars and Orchestra
(World Premiere)
DANNY ELFMAN: Serenada Schizophrana
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
Recommended Reading:
Two Different Guitarists, One Composer
by Mic Holwin
Danny Elfman Walks into Carnegie Hall…
by Jessica Lustig
Thursday, May 5, 2005 9:30 am – 1:00 pm
Friday May 6, 2005 9:30 am – 1:00 pm
Alfred Lerner Hall, Roone Arledge Auditorium
Columbia University
14th Annual New Music Readings
ACO’s annual roundup of the country’s brightest young and emerging composers.
Robert Beaser, artistic director
Steven Sloane, music director
Paul Lustig Dunkel, conductor
James Lowe, conductor
Steven Mackey and Melinda Wagner, mentor composers
Thursday, May 5
ZHOU TIAN: The Palace of Nine Perfections
SPENCER LAMBRIGHT: Lyhennys
JOSEPH SHEEHAN: Sail Away to Soft, Sweet Bells
MICHAEL GATONSKA: An Expedition Aboard the Third Mind
JENNIFER FITZGERALD: Having Once Been, Mvt. I
Friday, May 6
KENNETH FROELICH: Pulse Mutations
STEFAN WEISMAN: The Bird Happened
GREGG WRAMAGE: Remember Death (The Hemingway Summer)
DANIEL VISCONTI: Graffiti
CARLOS RIVERA: Popol-Vuh, Four Mayan Dances for Orchestra
Lead support for the Underwood New Music Readings comes from Mr. Paul Underwood, The Fromm Music Foundation and The Helen F. Whitaker Fund. ACO’s emerging composers programs are made possible with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and with the support of Jerome Foundation and the Eleanor Naylor Dana Charitable Trust.
2003-2004 Season
Wednesday, October 8, 2003 at 8:00 pm
Carnegie Hall, Isaac Stern Auditorium
Different Trains
Dramatic music for strings featuring a haunting sonic landscape by Steve Reich, one of America’s most influential composer-creators
Steven Sloane, conductor
James Stubbs, trumpet
JOHN ADAMS: Christian Zeal and Activity
CHARLES WUORINEN:Grand Bamboula
ANNA WEESNER: Still Things Move
(New York Premiere)
IRVING FINE: Serious Song: A Lament for String Orchestra
ALAN HOVHANESS:The Holy City, op. 218
STEVE REICH:Different Trains (Version for String Orchestra and pre-recorded tape)
(New York Premiere)
Friday, February 27, 2004 at 7:30 pm
Carnegie Hall at Zankel Hall
Orchestra Underground
Two new works that re-invent the orchestra concert with multimedia and altered instrumentation
Steven Sloane, conductor
Andrew Armstrong, piano
LISA BIELAWA: The Right Weather
(World Premiere, Commissioned by the Helen F. Whitaker Fund)
MICHAEL GORDON: Gotham
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
In Collaboration with Ridge Theater and Hypnotic Pictures
BILL MORRISON, filmaker
LAURIE OLINDER, visual artist
BOB McGRATH, director
Wednesday, March 10, 2004 at 8:00 pm
Carnegie Hall, Isaac Stern Auditorium
Fanfares and Fire
A high-energy blast of new music with reflective music by Nicholas Maw
Steven Sloane, conductor
eighth blackbird
DAVID SCHOBER: Split Horizon Concerto for Sextet and Orchestra
(World Premiere, Commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation)
DARON HAGEN: Fire Music
(New York Premiere)
NED ROREM: Lions
NICHOLAS MAW: The World in the Evening
(New York Premiere)
Wednesday, April 28, 2004 at 8:00 pm
Carnegie Hall, Isaac Stern Auditorium
Improvise!
Improvisation meets the orchestra…the centerpiece of a week-long festival
Steven Sloane, conductor
Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor
Anthony Davis, piano
Chico Freeman, saxophone
Gerry Hemingway, percussion
ALVIN SINGLETON: When Given A Choice
(World Premiere, Commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky Foundation in the Library of Congress and American Composers Orchestra)
EARLE BROWN: Event: Synergy II
ANTHONY DAVIS: Wayang V
(New York Premiere)
GEORGE LEWIS: Virtual Concerto
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
DUKE ELLINGTON: Les Trois Rois Noirs
Thursday, May 20, 2004 10:00 am – 3:30 pm
Friday May 21, 2004 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
13th Annual Whitaker New Music Readings
ACO’s annual round-up of the best and brightest works by emerging American composers.
Robert Beaser, artistic director
Jeffrey Milarsky & Carl St. Clair, conductors
Stephen Hartke and Michael Daugherty, mentor composers
DANIEL BRADSHAW: Jubilus
ANTHONY CHEUNG: 1st Movement, from Symphony No. 1
RALF GAWLICK: De La Mas Sabrosa Y Agradable Vida
KRISTIN KUSTER: The Narrows
JONATHAN NEWMAN: Hip + Now
THOMAS OSBORNE: The Burning Music
ROBERT PATERSON: Electric Lines
CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI: North
2002-2003 Season
Sunday, November 3, 2002 at 3pm
Carnegie Hall
A Program of Psalms
Steven Sloane, conductor
New York Virtuoso Singers, Harold Rosenbaum, artistic director
Judith Bettina, soprano
Amy Burton, soprano
Margaret Lattimore, mezzo-soprano
Richard Clement, tenor
John Hancock, baritoneDAVID LANG: how to pray
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
CHARLES IVES: Psalm 100
MILTON BABBITT: From the Psalter
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
JON MAGNUSSEN: Psalm (excerpts)
(New York Premiere)
CHARLES IVES: The Sixty-Seventh Psalm
SHULAMIT RAN: Supplications (for Chorus and Orchestra)
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
JOHN HARBISON: Four Psalms (New York Premiere)
Friday, February 21, 2003 at 7pm
Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater
Randall Woolf: Turn Me Away
twisted tutu
(Eve Beglarian-vocals, keyboards & Kathleen Supové keyboards)
…missing…
Margaret Kampmeier-piano,
John Ferrari-vibes, marimba
The Trick Is To Keep Breathing
The Sirius Quartet: Meg Okura-violin, Rachel Golub-violin, Ron Lawrence-viola, David Eggar-cello
The debut of Soup, a new group comprised of gospel/jazz/soul singer/composer Tyrone Henderson, co-composer Randall Woolf on keyboard, Nabaté Isles on trumpet, and guitarist Ann Klein.
Sunday, March 2, 2003 at 3pm
Carnegie Hall
Zappa and the Emerging American Composer
Steven Sloane, conductor
David Moss, Omar Ebrahim, vocalists
DAN COLEMAN: L’alma respira
(World premiere. Commissioned by the Helen F. Whitaker Fund)
HSUEH-YUNG SHEN: Autumn Fall
(World premiere. Commissioned by the Helen F. Whitaker Fund)
BRIAN ROBISON: In Search of the Miraculous
(World premiere. Commissioned by the Helen F. Whitaker Fund)
FRANK ZAPPA arr. Ali N. Askin:
The Adventures of Greggery Peccary
G-Spot Tornado
The Dog Breath Variations/Uncle Meat (a.k.a. Dog/Meat)
(NY Premiere)
Peaches en Regalia
(U.S. Premiere)
Sunday, April 6, 2003 at 3pm
Carnegie Hall
Antony and Cleopatra
Steven Sloane, conductor
New York Concert Singers, Judith Clurman, music director
Carol Vaness, Cleopatra
Louis Otey, Antony
Neil Rosenshein, Caesar
Arthur Woodley, Enobarbus
With:
Elizabeth Batton; Matthew Burns; Peter Couchman; Jonathan Goodman; Andrew Martens; Richard Lippold; Douglas Purcell; Mark Rehnstrom; Margaret Thompson; James Archie Worley
SAMUEL BARBER: Antony and Cleopatra (concert performance)
Monday, April 7, 2003
Steven Sloane, conductor
Jeffrey Milarsky & Scott Yoo, guest conductors
Robert Beaser, artistic director
Chen Yi, Joseph Schwantner, Steven Stucky, composer-mentors
ACO’s annual round-up of the best and brightest works by emerging American composers.
2001-2002 Season
October 10 – 14, 2001 / New York City
Orchestra Tech
A five-day conference and concert series exploring the integration of technology and the orchestra. Click here to learn more about the Orchestra Tech conference.
Wednesday, October 10, 2001 at 8 pm
Miller Theatre, Columbia University
American Composers Orchestra
Orchestra Tech Opening Concert
Gil Rose and Jeffrey Milarsky, conductors
Steven Schick, percussion
JOHN OSWALD: Concerto for Conductor and Orchestra
(New York Premiere)
OTTO LUENING: Synthesis
EDMUND CAMPION: What goes up…
(New York Premiere)
DAVID FELDER: In Between
(New York Premiere)
RANDALL WOOLF: Hee Haw
Thursday, October 11, 2001 at 8 pm
Merkin Concert Hall
Orchestra Tech presents Speculum Musicae
MARK APPLEBAUM: Scipio wakes up
(New York Premiere)
JAMES MOBBERLY: Soggiorno
(New York Premiere)
JOSHUA FINEBERG: Empreintes
(U.S. Premiere)
MATHEW ROSENBLUM: Nü
Kuan Tzu
Friday, October 12, 2001 at 8 pm
Great Hall, Cooper Union
Ethel: Electric Quartet with Carol Wincenc, flute
STEVEMACKEY: String Theory
RICARDO DAL FARRA: Homotecia
(World Premiere)
INGRAM MARSHALL: Fog Tropes II
RAND STEIGER: 13 Loops
(World premiere, New Version)
MARK WINGATE: Prophecy
ROGER REYNOLDS: Ariadne’s Thread
(New York Premiere)
Saturday, October 13, 2001 at 8 pm
The Knitting Factory
Electro-Acoustic Composers Out Front!
Composer-performers explore new worlds of technology, improvisation and virtuosity with performances by:
MARI KIMURA
MARTHA MOOKE
DANIEL TRUEMAN
GOLAN LEVIN
Sunday, October 14, 2001 at 8 pm
Carnegie Hall
American Composers Orchestra
Technology and the Orchestra
Sunday, October 14, 2001 at 8 pm
Carnegie Hall
American Composers Orchestra
Technology and the Orchestra
Paul Lustig Dunkel, conductor
EDGARD VARESE: Déserts
(with video created by Bill Viola) (New York Premiere)
TOD MACHOVER: Sparkler
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
MORTON SUBOTNICK: Before the Butterfly
(World Premiere, Digital Version)
TRISTAN MURAIL: Le Partage des Eaux
(U.S. Premiere)
Sunday, February 3, 2002 at 3 pm
Carnegie Hall
Philip Glass 65th Birthday Concert
Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
Lauren Flanigan, soprano
Raschèr Saxophone Quartet
PHILIP GLASS/RAVI SHANKAR: Passages
(U.S. Premiere)
PHILIP GLASS: Symphony No. 6, “Plutonian Ode”
(World Premiere, Carnegie Hall Corporation and Bruckner Orchestra, Linz Commission)
Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 3 pm
Carnegie Hall
ACO 25th Anniversary Concert, Part I
Steven Sloane, conductor (Carnegie Hall Debut)
Icebreaker, guest ensemble
STEWART WALLACE: The Book of Five
(World Premiere, ACO/ASCAP Foundation Commission)
ERICH KORNGOLD: Symphony in F#, Op. 40
Sunday, April 14, 2002 at 3 pm
Carnegie Hall
ACO 25th Anniversary Concert, Part II
Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
Margaret Leng Tan, piano
KEVIN PUTS: Falling Dream
(World Premiere, BMI Foundation/Carlos Surinach Fund Commission)
FRANCIS THORNE: Concerto for Orchestra
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
JOHN CAGE: Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra
ELLIOTT CARTER: Variations for Orchestra
2000-2001 Season
October 11, 2000, 8:00 PM
Japan Society
Pacifica Mix
Dorothy Chang: BLOOM (1994)
Solo ‘cello Ushio
Torikai: AIR 4
Solo flute
Joan Huang: REMEMBERING SOUTH RIVER LAND (1999)
Piano trio
Gi Nyoung Lee: SANJO (1999)
Solo viola
PQ Phan: BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS (1995)
Clarinet, violin, ‘cello, piano
Kenji Bunch: SUITE FOR VIOLA AND PIANO
Viola, piano
Sunday, October 15, 2000
Carnegie Hall
Pacifica
From the Pacific Rim to the West Coast… Asian influences in American music.
Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor
Ursula Oppens, piano
MELISSA HUI: Common Ground
(U.S. Premiere)
CHINARY UNG: Inner Voices
P.Q. PHAN: When the Worlds Mixed and Times Merged
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
LOU HARRISON: Piano Concerto
January 21, 2001
Carnegie Hall
Berlin 1931
A re-creation of a program of American music introduced to German audiences 70 years earlier by the inimitable Nicolas Slonimsky.
Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor
ADOLPH WEISS: American Life
CHARLES IVES: Three Places in New England
CARL RUGGLES: Men and Mountains
COWELL: Synchrony
AMADEO ROLDÁN: Suite de “La Rebambaramba”
February 2, 2001 at 8:30 PM
Joe’s Pub
Derek Bermel & Peace by Piece
Old Songs for a New Man (1996-97)
Timothy Jones, baritone
Turning (1995)
Marilyn Nonken, piano
“Peace by Piece”
Derek Bermel, voice, keyboards, caxixi; Mat Deveau, drums; Bobby Roe, bass; Mark Tewarson, guitar
March 9, 2001; 8:30 PM
Joe’s Pub
Nong Rock
komungo and string quartet
Portrait
for komungo solo
Core
for komungo solo
EK for JC
for electric komungo solo
Quagmire
Jin Hi Kim, komungo
Reggie Workman, bass
Oliver Lake, Saxophone
March 11, 2001, 2:00 PM
New York Historical Society
Immigrant Voices
New York Concert Singers Judith Clurman, director
Susan Jolles, harp
Alan Muraoka, narrator
MAX HELFMAN: The Lady with the Lamp
MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Cherry Ripe
IGOR STRAVINSKY: Ave Maria & Anthem
ERNST KRENEK: The Four Sweet Months
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG: Drei Volksliedsatze
ERNST TOCH: Geographical Fugue
CHEN YI (arr.): Fengyang Song
ALLA BORSOVA: Festive
PAOLA PRESTINI: Solitude
(World Premiere)
ALICE PARKER (arr.): Irish Folk Songs
March 18, 2001
Carnegie Hall
American music continually enriched by immigrant composers.
Dante Anzolini, Conductor
Leon Fleisher, piano
Jin Hi Kim, komungo
JIN HI KIM: Eternal Rock
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
TANIA LEóN: Desde…
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
LUKAS FOSS: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG: Variations for Orchestra
April 14, 2:00 PM
American Museum of the Moving Image
Hidden Hollywood
DAVID RAKSIN: Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet
BERNARD HERRMANN: Echoes
JOHN CORIGLIANO: Soliloquy
MIKLOS ROZSA: String Quartet No. 1
April 18, 2001
Whitaker New Music Reading Sessions
ACO’s annual round-up of the country’s most promising emerging composers.
April 19, 2001; 8:30 PM
Joe’s Pub
David Raksin: Hollywood Cabaret
David Raksin: SWING LOW SWEET CLARINET
Clarinet and string quartet
David Raksin: LAURA
Piano/vocal variations (David Raksin and Francis Thorne)
David Raksin: THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL
Clarinet and piano
Remainder
of the program TBA
April 7-8,15, 21, 2:00 PM
American Museum of the Moving Image
Hidden Hollywood (part 2)
Film screenings & discussion with composers
April 7: Philip Glass, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Kundun
April 8: Royal Brown, film historian, Vertigo, Spellbound
April 15: composer Carter Burwell and sound designer Skip Lievsay, Barton Fink
April 15 (5:00 PM): Paul Chihara
April 21: David Raksin: Laura, The Bad and the Beautiful
April 22, 2001
Carnegie Hall
Hollywood composers from the studio heydays to today.
Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor
Scott Dunn, piano
BERNARD HERRMANN: Psycho Suite
DAVID RAKSIN: The Bad and the Beautiful
IGOR STRAVINSKY: Four Norwegian Moods
MIKLOS ROZSA: The Spellbound Concerto
DMITRI TIOMKIN: The Thing
PAUL CHIHARA: Clouds (…from out of the past)
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
1999-2000 Season
Sunday, October 31, 1999 at 3pm
Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
Lauren Flanigan, soprano
LOUIS BALLARD: Incident at Wounded Knee
(N.Y. Premiere)
ROBERT BEASER: The Heavenly Feast
(N.Y. Premiere)
Commissioned by ACO and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
ALVIN SINGLETON: 56 Blows (N.Y. Premiere)
CURTIS-SMITH: GAS! – The Great American Symphony
Sunday, January 9, 2000 at 3pm
Roots
Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor
JOHN CAGE: Quartets
AMY BEACH: Symphony in E minor, Op. 32, “Gaelic”
MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS: Tomorrow’s Song, as Yesterday Sings Today (World Premiere) Commissioned by ACO with the support of the late Francis Goelet
DANIEL ROUMAIN: Harlem Essay for Orchestra and Digital Audio Tape
(World Premiere) Commissioned by ACO with the support of the Helen F. Whitaker Fund
Sunday, February 27, 2000 at 3pm
Lindbergh…
Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor
Laurie Anderson, electric violin
Robert Wilson, narrator
Suzan Hanson, soprano
Maria Jonas, mezzo-soprano
John Duykers, tenor
Leon Williams, baritone
Stephen Morscheck, bass
Judith Clurman Chorale, Judith Clurman, director
SAMUEL BARBER: Night Flight, Op. 19a
KURT WEILL: The Lindbergh Flight
LAURIE ANDERSON: Songs for A.E. (bassed on the story of Amelia Earhart
(World Premiere)
Commissioned by The Carnegie Hall Corporation
PHILIP GLASS/ROBERT WILSON: Act V from “The White Raven” (U.S. Premiere)
Thursday, March 23, 2000 at 6pm
Museum of Modern Art
George Antheil Centennial in Music & Film
Anthony de Mare, piano
A celebration of Antheil’s centennial in film and music. The evening
includes a short recital of piano works by Antheil, including Death
of the Machines and The Airplane Sonata which inspired
his notorious Ballet Mécanique.
Also featured is a screening of Angels Over Broadway (1940), directed by Ben Hecht, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Rita Hayworth, with a score by Antheil.
No tickets necessary. There is no additional charge for the program, beyond the regular price of admission to the museum.
Presented in collaboration with The Musuem of Modern Art.
Saturday, April 1, 2000, 10am – 5pm
Weill Recital Hall
Copland-Sessions: American Music Coming of Age
A symposium and chamber music concert featuring “Music from the Copland House.”
[more information…]April 2, 2000 at 3pm
Copland-Sessions
Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor
ROGER SESSIONS: Symphony No. 3
AARON COPLAND: Short Symphony
JENNIFER HIGDON: Fanfare Ritmico
(N.Y. Premiere) Co-commissioned by ACO and the Women’s Philharmonic
GEORGE ANTHEIL: Ballet Mécanique
Performance of Ballet Mécanique is made possible with the support of Yamaha Corp. of America.
Monday, April 3, 2000 9:30am – 2:30pm & 2pm – 5pm
Masonic Hall
Whitaker New Music Reading Sessions
The culmination of ACO’s annual national search for the best new orchestral music by emerging professional composers.
Dennis Russell Davies & Paul Lustig Dunkel, Conductors
Robert Beaser, Artistic Advisor
RAFAEL HERNANDEZ: Man Expanding
JOHN KLINE: Anytime Soon
JASON FREEMAN: Diffusions
JAMES MATHESON: Gliss
MATTHEW LIMA: A Golden Momentary Blur
BRIAN ROBISON: Imagined Corners
JUAN CUELLAR: Tatambo
1998-99 Season
Saturday, May 15 1999 at 2pm
New York Historical Society
Walt Whitman & Music: A Performance/Discussion
ACO closes the season with a weekend exploring the great American poet’s influence on American music. Saturday, a recital-discussion at The New-York Historical Society with music by Weill, Bernstein, Rorem and more, plus discussion with noted Whitman scholars David S. Reynolds and Jack Sullivan. related
articles:
Whitman’s Musical Legacy by Jack Sullivan
I hear American Singing: Whitman and the
music of his time by David S. Reynolds.
Sunday, May 16, 1999 at 3pm
Carnegie Hall
Walt Whitman
Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
Emily Golden, Milagro Vargas, mezzo-sopranos
Andre Solomon-Glover, baritone
Judith Clurman Chorale, Judith Clurman, music director
WILLIAM BOLCOM: A Whitman Triptych
(NY Premiere)
PAUL HINDEMITH: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
A pre-concert discussion-recital takes place on the Carnegie Hall stage at 1:45 and is free to ticket-holders. The pre-concert activities juxtapose settings by Kurt Weill and Larry Alan Smith of
Whitman’s “Come Up from the Fields Father,” which is also one of the three Whitman poems set by William Bolcom in his Whitman Triptych. Mr. Bolcom will participate, as will Jack Sullivan, author of a new book, New World Symphonies.
See essays on Whitman and Music by noted scholars David S. Reynolds and Jack Sullivan.
MARCH 2 – 14, 1999
A week of premieres from Cuba.
Chamber music, orchestral music, folkloric and popular elements come together in ACO’s annual festival of Latin American music, featuring the largest delegation of Cuban and Cuban-born composers ever assemble in the U.S. In addition to concerts there are symposia, workshops and master classes.
Click here to see complete schedule of events.
The festival culminates in an orchestral concert at Carnegie Hall:
Sunday, March 14 at 3pm
Carnegie Hall
Sonidos de las Américas: Cuba
Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
Santiago Rodriguez, piano
HAROLD GRAMATGES: Serenata for String Orchestra
AURELIO DE LA VEGA: Adios
ERNESTO LECUONA: Rapsodia Negra for
Piano and Orchestra
LEO BROUWER: Canción de Gesta
JULIAN ORBON: Tres Versiones Sinfonicas
Pre-concert discussion at 1:30pm
Sunday, JANUARY 10, 1999 at 3pm
The Gershwin Circle
Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
Leon Bates, Scott Dunn, Alan Feinberg, Ursula Oppens, piano
VERNON DUKE: Piano Concerto in C Major [orch. Scott Dunn]
(World Premiere)
OSCAR LEVANT: Piano Concerto
GEORGE GERSHWIN: Rhapsody No. 2 for Piano & Orchestra
MAURICE RAVEL: Piano Concerto for Left
Hand in D Major
Sunday, SEPTEMBER 27, 1998 at 3pm
Paul Lustig Dunkel, conductor & flute
Mark Mandarano, assistant conductor
Michael Boriskin, piano
RANDALL WOOLF: White Heat
(NY Premiere)
GEORGE PERLE: Piano Concerto No. 1
(NY Premiere)
MELINDA WAGNER: Flute Concerto
(NY Premiere)
GEORGE CRUMB: Echoes of Time and the River
This concert is dedicated to the memory of Francis Goelet.
Sunday, NOVEMBER 1, 1998 at 3pm
Gerard Schwarz, conductor
Andrés Cárdenes, violin
ANTHONY M. KELLEY: The Breaks
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
DAVID STOCK: Violin Concerto
(NY Premiere)
DAVID DIAMOND: Symphony No. 2
1997-98 Season at Carnegie Hall
MAY 24, 1998 at 3pm
Tan Dun, conductor
Derek Bermel, clarinet
Susan Botti, soprano
Michael Gordon: Romeo
(U.S. premiere)
Derek Bermel: Voices
(World premiere – ACO commission)
Todd Levin: Swirl
(N.Y. premiere)
Tan Dun: Red Forecast (Orchestral Theater III) for soprano, orchestra, video, and audio
(U.S. premiere)
NOVEMBER 2, 1997 at 3pm
Paul Lustig Dunkel, conductor
Frederic Rzewski, piano
Ingram Marshall: Kingdom Come
(World premiere – ACO commission)
Cascades of sound from the orchestra intersperse with haunting musical fragments taped in Yugoslavia and Bosnia. ACO takes the wraps off Marshall’s latest and largest-scale work to-date.
Robert Di Domenica: Symphony
(New York premiere)
A native New Yorker’s own symphony built from parts borrowed from Mozart’s 40th.
Frederic Rzewski: A Long Time Man, for Piano and Orchestra
(New York premiere)
Expat & experimental, Rzewski draws on a nearly limitless supply of styles and techniques, which he distills and weaves into exhilarating compositions of social commentary. Rzewski makes a rare U.S. appearance in an eclectic work of improvisation replete with imagery of a prison chain-gang.
Alvin Etler: Concerto for Brass Quintet, Percussion, and String Orchestra
ACO principal players take center stage in a dazzling display of musical metal.
Pre-Concert Discussion with composers Frederic Rzewski, Ingram
Marshall, Robert DiDomenica and ACO Artistic Advisor Robert Beaser
1:45 pm.
DECEMBER 7, 1997 at 3pm
Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
Kim Kashkashian, viola
Thomas Buckner, Sam Ashley, Jacqueline Humbert, Joan
LaBarbara, chorus
Robert Ashley: When Famous Last Words Fail You
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
The first installment of the monumental series of Immortality Songs by this multimedia pioneer.
Sebastian Currier: Microsymph
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
A five-movement symphony squeezed into ten minutes. A frantically
paced, restless, quickchanging kaleidoscope, including a 60 billion
nanosecond Scherzo!
Betsy Jolas: Frauenleben
(U.S. Premiere)
An award-winning new work for viola and orchestra.
Lou Harrison: Symphony on G
(N.Y. Premiere)
A major work by a true American eclectic, blending the rigors of his teacher Schoenberg’s methods with Harrison’s own unique melodic gifts and holistic world view.
JANUARY 11, 1998 at 3pm
Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
The Rascher Saxophone Quartet
Roger Sessions: Symphony No. 1
Augusta Read Thomas: Concerto for
Saxophone Quartet
(World premiere)
Hale Smith: Ritual and Incantations
Philip Glass: Concerto for Saxophone Quartet
(New York premiere)
MARCH 8, 1998 at 3pm
Sonidos de las Américas: Argentina “Beyond Tango!”
Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
Raúl Jaurena, bandoneón
Americas Womens Choir, Nelly Vuksic, director
Astor Piazzolla: Concierto para bandoneón
Marta Lambertini: Antigone II
(U.S. Premiere)
Lalo Schifrin: La Represión
(World Premiere)
Ezequiel Viñao: El Sueño de Cristobal
(N.Y. Premiere)
Alberto Ginastera: Glosses sobre temes de Pau Casals
(N.Y. Premiere)
Pre-Concert Discussion with composer delegates from Argentina at 1:30
pm. This concert is the culmination of a week-long festival of music from Argentina, which includes performances at Weill Recital Hall and other venues around the city.